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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Ivan Turgenev

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Autocracy Greatness Pain Reason Source Sweet
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Creation Destroy Nature Right
Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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Body Condition Feeling Himself Love Permission Possession Sick Soul Willing
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Grieve Life Meadow Myself Walk
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Degrade Essence Life Terrible
I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Alone Bad Existence Fact Myself
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Essence Life Lying Oneself
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Adopt Ideas Myself Opinion
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Difficult Human Live Moments Open Spoil
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Bored Children Parents
The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Dreams Past Remember
The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Believe One Liner
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Angry Failure Far Jealous Road Strength
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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Branch Himself Son Willing
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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Earth Fire Happiness Oneself Talk
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness Hurt Late Worst
Significance is sweet.
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One Liner Sweet
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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Death Fear Love Myself Thinking Togetherness
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Circumstance Force Punishment Road
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Myself Oneself Opinion
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bird Fairy Tale Feed
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Angry Come Himself Person

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